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• Tests find drugs, alcohol in blood of Paris airport attacker

  19-03-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Blood tests determined Sunday that a suspected Islamic extremist consumed drugs and alcohol before a frenzied spree of violence that ended when he took a soldier hostage at Paris' Orly Airport and was shot dead by her fellow patrolmen.
  
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• Highlights: The Trump presidency on March 19 at 6:50 p.m. EDT

  19-03-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday:HEALTHCAREU.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday.DIPLOMACYWith warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ends his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreem
  
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• Man arrested after claiming bomb at White House gates: police report

  19-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  A 29-year-old man who was arrested near the White House late on Saturday falsely told the U.S. Secret Service he had a bomb, according to a police report released on Sunday.Sean Patrick Keoughan of Roanoke, Virginia, was arrested after he pulled up to the security checkpoint near the White House just after 11 p.m. on Saturday in a stolen 2017 Chevrolet Impala.Keoughan told the Secret Service: "There’s a bomb in the trunk” while holding something in his right hand, the police report s
  
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• French airport attacker 'had drunk and taken drugs'

  19-03-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The man shot dead at Paris's Orly airport after attacking a soldier was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, a judicial source said Sunday.Investigators are still trying to understand what motivated Saturday's assault by 39-year-old Ziyed Ben Belgacem, which led to a major security scare and the temporary closure of the capital's second-busiest airport.Ben Belgacem's father had insisted earlier Sunday that his son was "not a terrorist" and that his actions were caused by drink a
  
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• World Bank announces $57 bln in financing for Africa

  19-03-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Of that total, $45 billion will come from the International Development Association, the World Bank fund that provides grants and interest-free loans for the world's poorest countries.The package will also feature an estimated $8 billion in private sector investments from the International Finance Corporation, a private-sector branch of World Bank, and $4 billion will come from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank's unit for middle-income nations, World Bank presid
  
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• Brazil reassures foreign countries after meat scandal

  19-03-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president met Sunday with dozens of ambassadors from countries that import Brazilian meat, seeking to minimize damage from a corruption probe that alleges meatpackers bribed inspectors to keep rotten meat on the market.
  
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• Trump: Kim Jong Un ‘acting very, very badly’

  19-03-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump reiterated on Sunday that he believes North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un, are misbehaving with their nuclear provocations.
  
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• Abe, Merkel call for open markets

  19-03-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a staunch joint defence of free trade Sunday, as the United States pushes towards greater protectionism."We want free and open markets," Merkel said in a speech in Hanover, a day before the world's biggest computer trade fair, CeBIT, kicks off in the central German city.The event is partnered with Japan this year.
  
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• Tourism to food, Buddhist Thailand hunts halal gold

  19-03-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  From hotels with segregated swimming pools to jelly made from seaweed instead of pig bones, Buddhist Thailand is chasing halal gold as it welcomes Muslim visitors and touts its wares to the Islamic world.Inside the cavernous dining hall of the five-star Al Meroz hotel in a Muslim suburb of Bangkok, an elderly man with a wispy beard recites verses of the Koran as a nervous-looking groom awaits the arrival of his bride.The ceremony is one of dozens of marriages held over the last few months at the
  
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• SpaceX Capsule Returns To Earth

  19-03-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The Dragon capsule was carrying more than 3,600 pounds of cargo back to Earth, some of which will be transported immediately to NASA scientists for study.
  
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• Germany's Merkel and Japan's Abe urge free trade with jabs at U.S.

  19-03-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke up for free trade at a major technology fair on Sunday with jabs clearly pointed at an increasingly protectionist United States.Both called for a free trade deal to be reached quickly between Japan and the European Union, in comments made after G20 finance ministers and central bankers dropped a long-standing mention of open trade in their final communique after a two-day meeting in Germany.
  
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• More rain looms as Peru struggles with disastrous floods

  19-03-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Peruvians struggled on Sunday to cope with avalanches, mudslides and extensive flash flooding caused by torrential downpours, and forecasters predicted still more rain ahead, prolonging the country's woes.It has been a bad year for flooding in Peru, and the toll including from the latest dangerous weather now stands at 75 since January, the government said.The National Emergency Operations Center said 99,475 Peruvians had lost everything since the beginning of the year, while 626,928 had suffere
  
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• The Latest: Judge rejects request to clarify travel order

  19-03-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit filed in Hawaii over the Trump administration's revised travel ban (all times local):
  
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• What Judge Gorsuch (and the rest of us) can expect at his confirmation hearing

  19-03-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A whole 13 months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia left a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings starting on Monday to probe the judge nominated to replace him.“It’s a fascinating process because clearly he has strengths in intellect and articulateness that make him an appealing candidate,” Mr. Blumenthal told The New York Times.
  
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• Brazil says exports safe despite rotten meat scandal

  19-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil tried to reassure the world Sunday that its huge meat industry poses no threat despite allegations that major exporters have been selling tainted beef and poultry with falsified inspection certificates.President Michel Temer held crisis talks in the capital Brasilia with meat industry representatives, Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi and Trade Minister Marcos Pereira.Brazil, the world's biggest beef and chicken exporter, with clients in some 150 countries, is scra
  
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• Canadian wins $1M global teacher prize for work with Inuit

  19-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Canadian school teacher who encourages hope and acts of kindness in an isolated corner of Quebec won a $1 million prize Sunday in what has become one of the most high-profile awards for teaching excellence.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 19, 2017

  19-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq; a baboon looks at the road in Amboseli National Park, Kenya; a woman places flowers on a train wagon at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, to mark the 74th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• This fiery video captures Mount Etna's magical oozing lava

  19-03-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Italy's Mount Etna is still fired up. The Sicilian volcano has been spewing lava and belching ash on and off for nearly three months now. After the latest eruption on March 16, fiery-hot lava began flowing down the volcano's slopes. The video shown above captures the flow only two days later.SEE ALSO: Watch this Mexican volcano blow some serious smokeBut as Mount Etna reminded visitors, lava is best viewed from afar. The brilliant red lava recently caused an explosion when it hit snow on the mou
  
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• In conflicts, faith leaders must often stay above

  19-03-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
   If faith leaders take sides in a conflict, do they give up any possible role as a trusted mediator?The North African country, which had a budding democracy in 2011 after ousting dictator Muammar Qaddafi, is fast descending into violent chaos.Libya is no backwater country whose internal strife can be ignored.
  
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• Intel documents offer no evidence of spying on Trump Tower

  19-03-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top two lawmakers on the House intelligence committee said Sunday that documents the Justice Department and FBI delivered late last week offered no evidence that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower, but the panel's ranking Democrat says the material offers circumstantial evidence that American citizens colluded with Russians in Moscow's efforts to interfere in the presidential election.
  
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• Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies

  19-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Breslin scored one of his best-remembered interviews with President John F. Kennedy's grave-digger and once drove straight into a riot where he was beaten to his underwear.
  
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• Syrian Presidential Palace Bombarded

  19-03-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Rebels launched a surprise assault ahead of peace talks set to begin Thursday in Geneva.
  
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• Principal Pushes 5th Grader With Autism An Entire 5K Race

  19-03-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  
  The 5th grader's twin brother also ran alongside him.
  
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• 'No evidence of collusion' between Trump campaign, Russia: US lawmaker

  19-03-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A congressional panel so far has found "no evidence" that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, its chairman said Sunday, ahead of testimony by the head of the FBI on the US president's potential Russia ties.Based on "everything I have up to this morning -- no evidence of collusion," by Trump's team and Moscow, Representative Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News.Nunes made his remarks one day before Federal Bureau of Investigat
  
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• Germany says Erdogan has 'gone too far' with Nazi jibe

  19-03-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Germany angrily warned Turkey on Sunday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had gone too far after he accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of using "Nazi measures" in an escalating diplomatic feud.Turkey and the European Union are locked in an explosive crisis that threatens to jeopardise Ankara's bid to join the bloc, as tensions rise ahead of an April 16 referendum on expanding Erdogan's powers.The row erupted after authorities in Germany and other EU states refused to allow some Turkish ministers
  
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• Earth just had its second-warmest February on record

  19-03-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  As the saying goes: Another month, another disconcerting report from top U.S. climate agencies. Last month was Earth's second-hottest February on record since at least 1880, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently reported.  At the same time, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica hit record monthly lows.SEE ALSO: Here’s why it's so frickin’ hot right nowIn February 2017, the average global temperature was 1.76 degrees Fahrenheit
  
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• Clashes in Syria capital after surprise rebel assault

  19-03-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday as rebels and jihadists tried to fight their way into the city centre in a surprise assault on government forces.The attack comes just days before a fresh round of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva aiming at ending Syria's six-year war.Rebels and government forces agreed to a nationwide cessation of hostilities in December, but fighting has continued across much of the country, including in the capital.
  
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• Cat exhibition in Bishkek

  19-03-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Cats breeders and owners from Kyrgyzstan gathered in Bishkek to present their feline pets. (Getty)
  
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• Ryan: More help for older people needed in GOP health bill

  19-03-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before a pivotal vote, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he will seek changes to a GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people. The new willingness to compromise was a bid for more support from moderate Republicans, who expressed continuing unease about the plan to replace Barack Obama's health law unless significant changes were made.
  
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• Waiter Fired After Asking Latina Women For 'Proof of Residency'

  19-03-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Diana Carrillo, pictured, was taken aback by the waiter's question.
  
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• Will Steve King’s immigrant comments keep wary tourists out of Iowa?

  19-03-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A travel boycott of Iowa could have serious economic impact on the state, which takes in around $8 billion a year in tourism revenue, according to state officials.Last week, staffers grappled with an unwieldy influx of correspondence following Representative King's retweet of a post endorsing Geert Wilders, a controversial, far-right candidate for Dutch prime minister who came in second place during a Wednesday election."We’re in a politically charged environment," Shawna Lode, the to
  
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson unleashes hot fire on Trump in angry tweetstorm

  19-03-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Neil deGrasse Tyson took a break from sharing science facts and nerdy dad jokes on Sunday to blast Donald Trump in a raging tweetstorm. SEE ALSO: Maybe the GOP will finally get to kill Big Bird after allSpecifically, Tyson targeted Trump's proposed slashing of federal funding for programs that support the arts, education, and the EPA, which has long been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The fastest way to Make a America Weak Again: Cut science funds to our agencies that s
  
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• In an Israeli warehouse, clues about Jesus' life and death

  19-03-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — In a cavernous warehouse where Israel stores its archaeological treasures, an ancient burial box is inscribed with the name of Jesus.
  
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• Pressure builds on Trump to back off wiretap accusations

  19-03-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson and Caren BohanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.Several Republicans last week urged Trump to apologize for the allegations he made in a series of tweets on March 4."I don't know the basis for President Trump's assertion," U.S.
  
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• French Socialist draws crowd, says victory still possible

  19-03-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Socialist candidate for the French presidency and his far-left rival have a big obstacle blocking their route to the presidential Elysee Palace: each other.
  
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• SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

  19-03-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.
  
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• Macron holds edge in French election race ahead of first debate

  19-03-2017 18:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron remains favorite to win France's turbulent presidential election race, a poll showed on Sunday, on the eve of a first televised debate which could allow embattled conservative Francois Fillon to get back in contention.Macron, a former economy minister running as an independent centrist, would lead first-round voting with 26.5 percent, just ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen on 26 percent, before beating her 64-36 in the run-off, according to the Odoxa poll.Fillon scored 19 p
  
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• Correction: Radioactive Lab-Indictment story

  19-03-2017 18:50 via yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a story March 17 about a Kansas man accused of tainting a lab with radioactive waste, The Associated Press misstated the name of an organization he founded. Ahmed el-Sherif founded the American Muslim Council of Greater Kansas City. The words "Kansas City" were mistakenly left off in the original story.
  
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• Federal court gives students chance to parry with judges

  19-03-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Arguing a case before a panel of federal appeals-court judges can be daunting even for experienced lawyers. Their clients often have much at stake, and the judges can be relentless, interrupting with questions to point out weaknesses and even occasionally to scold.
  
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• Netanyahu raises possibility of snap polls after broadcasting row

  19-03-2017 18:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Sunday the possibility of snap elections following a dispute with his finance minister over a new national broadcasting service.Local papers, radio and television channels reported on a weekend threat by Netanyahu to dissolve the government if the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) isn't dissolved before its scheduled start date on April 30.Netanyahu, whose Likud party is part of a slim parliamentary majority, has long been opposed to the new s
  
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• Top Dem on House intel panel hopes Comey ends ‘wild goose chase’ over Trump wiretap claims

  19-03-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee continue to say they have seen no proof of President Trump’s explosive, evidence-free claim that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower before the 2016 presidential election.“Was there a physical wiretap of Trump Tower?
  
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• Meals on Wheels receives massive donations following proposed budget cut. Will it matter?

  19-03-2017 18:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Following Thursday’s White House budget proposal release, Meals on Wheels, a nonprofit organization that delivers food to elderly isolated or disabled citizens received more than $100,000 in donations over a two-day period.The surge in contributions came after last week’s release of the White House budget proposal which includes a 17.9 percent cut for in federal funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, which according to Meals on Wheels, provides most of the organizat
  
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• Teacher from Canadian Arctic wins global prize in Dubai

  19-03-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  A Canadian who teaches at a school in a fly-in only village in the Arctic won a $1-million Global Teacher Prize at a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday.Maggie MacDonnell, praised for "changing the lives of her students and transforming her community", was among 10 finalists chosen from 20,000 nominations and applications from 179 countries.MacDonnell said she has witnessed over 10 suicides.
  
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• Lobster-crazy China sets record for US crustacean imports

  19-03-2017 18:05 via yahoo.com
  
  ROCKPORT, Maine (AP) — The expanding market for lobsters in China is continuing to grow, with the country setting a new record for the value of its imports of the crustaceans from the United States.
  
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• U.S. Republicans working on Medicaid, tax credit changes: Ryan

  19-03-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill that would implement a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, as well as boost tax credits for older, lower income people, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday."We think we should be offering more assistance than the bill currently does," for lower-income people age 50 to 64, Ryan said of the tax credits for health insurance that are proposed in the legislation.Speaking on the "Fox News Sunday
  
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• Pulitzer-winning New York columnist Jimmy Breslin dies at 88

  19-03-2017 17:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, a self-described “street reporter” who chronicled New York City life for decades and won acclaim for his coverage of the "Son of Sam" serial killings, died on Sunday morning at age 88.Breslin died at his home on Manhattan's West Side, said Michael Daly, a friend and a columnist at the New York Daily News, one of several newspapers where Breslin worked in his decades-long career.Breslin was believed to be 86 at the time of his
  
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• Lebanese descend on capital to protest proposed tax hikes

  19-03-2017 17:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Several thousand people descended on the Lebanese capital Sunday to protest proposed tax hikes to cover a salary increase for teachers and other public servants.Instead of taxing citizens more, the government should eliminate corruption and waste within its own institutions, the protesters said."You steal, we pay!" read one of the banners on Sunday, while another depicted a picture of Lebanon's cabinet with the caption: "The bandits of Lebanon".
  
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• Israeli archaeologists shine light on life in time of Christ

  19-03-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The Israel Antiquities Authority on Sunday offered a rare glimpse into its storerooms, where staff said recent archaeological discoveries have cast new light on life at the time of Christ.The event was organised ahead of the upcoming Christian holiday of Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus following his crucifixion.Among finds from the first century AD discovered around Jerusalem and the Galilee, where the Bible says Jesus lived and preached, are vases, cooking utensils, a wine press,
  
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• Wiretapping Allegation 'Patently False,' Rep. Schiff Says

  19-03-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes says there was no physical wiretap at Trump Tower.
  
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